When things change

QE and the ‘taper tantrum’ of 2013 raised concerns among Standard Life Investments’ emerging market debt team, causing them to turn negative on countries with a twin deficit economy.

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In turn, its emerging market equity team had specific concerns over the investment case in Lippo Kawaraci, an Indonesian property developer. Had the view on the stock now changed?

A different, company-specific threat was identified in China with the GlaxoSmithKline bribery scandal meaning questions needed to be asked over holdings in another pharma company, Roche. Given Roche’s operations in China, was it similarly exposed?

The responsible investment team led the dialogue to reassess the investment case along with European, emerging market and global equity managers.

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